Look! Up in the Sky!

It's not a bird or a plane or Superman, it's the Goodyear blimp! Recently I read that Goodyear put a new blimp into service, Wingfoot Two, and I was reminded of the blimp chasing I did back in the mid-80s.

Although I enjoy model railroading, I've never been much of a serious train chaser, but there was a time when blimp watching was my thing.

This particular landing sequence I shot outside the fence of the old Downsview Airforce Base in Toronto maybe in '85 or '86. 

I think that yellow station wagon off to the left is an AMC Eagle. 

Nose down, on final approach.

I recall there was a big ground crew that travelled with this ship. That's one of their buses in in the foreground.

Vehicles cleared, everything is ready for a perfect landing.

I don't seem to have any photos of the docking operation, just this one last shot over the gate of the moored blimp.